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There are six words in the English language which have the letter combination of "UU". One of the words is 'Vacuum', can you name the other five?
Answer
Muumuu, Continuum, Duumvirate, Duumvir, Residuum, VacuumMuumuu - A long loose dress that hangs free from the shoulders
Continuum - A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division
Duumvirate - A regime or partnership of two persons
Duumvir - A member of a duumvirate
Residuum - Something remaining after removal of a part; a residue
Vacuum - A state of being sealed off from external
or environmental influences; isolation
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Lol.. never heard of any but continuum, and never would've though of it.
What I did think of, were those six elements on the Periodic Table which have Uu as their first two letters :-)
What I did think of, were those six elements on the Periodic Table which have Uu as their first two letters :-)
thats funny, being a chemistry nut myself, thats where the idea came from
I'm guessing you're only after root words, because you could have vacuums, vacuuming and vacuumed.
yeah, root ords only
I still maintain that it would have been nice to have the definitions of the words in the answer. Apart from Vacuum I haven't a clue as to the others. Always ready to be educated though, i'll go and look them up
revacuum
unvacuum
devacuum
exvacuum
disvacuum
muumuuistical
muumuuriffic
muumuumatic
demuumuuification
Muumuumerica
"Call me muumuuistical if you like, but I think it's muumuuriffic that they've begun installing muumuumatics in many malls and airports. Looks like we won't be seeing the demuumuuification of Muumuumerica anytime soon!"
unvacuum
devacuum
exvacuum
disvacuum
muumuuistical
muumuuriffic
muumuumatic
demuumuuification
Muumuumerica
"Call me muumuuistical if you like, but I think it's muumuuriffic that they've begun installing muumuumatics in many malls and airports. Looks like we won't be seeing the demuumuuification of Muumuumerica anytime soon!"
please read other comments first. Root words only please
cool, you put a lot of thought into it. Words with a double u (no pun intended for the "w"hats of the "w"orld), it never dawned on me to ponder the thought. That's the whole point of this site.
I got continuum, never heard of the others. Good teaser!
The first word I thought of was uuh...
i had no idea, i would never had guessed any of 'em, except MAYBE vacuum. But good one! you even did some research!
lol such a good teaser i just knew muumuu and vacuum^^.
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